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    How My Ecstasy Trip Turned Into a Rare Anxiety Disorder

    by Kastalia Medrano Jan 17, 2018 4 minutes

    A week after the concert, when my trip should’ve already been over, I was still seeing things. When I took my contacts out, the lights blurred into vast orbs, and hung in front of my eyes like Christmas lights.Photograph by Dimas Ardian / Getty Images

    When I was at the Firefly Music Festival in Delaware, in the summer of 2014, I took a 200 mg pill of ecstasy—Red Riddler—something I had done before. After the sets were over, the colors of the overhead lamps seemed more saturated against the sky. Each bulb’s top-right quadrant had a massive, prismatic aura, like it came off a rainbow.

    A week after the concert, when my trip should’ve already been over, I was still seeing things. When I took my contactsit—and come out the other side with no ill effects.

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